Speedometer.



G. L. BASTIAN.

SPEBDOMETER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1909.

Patented June 20, 1911.

i To all whom it may concern:

CHARLES L. BASTIAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPEEDOMETEB.

Specification of Ietters Patent.

Patented June 20, 191.1.

Application filed September 27, 1909. Serial No. 519,863.

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. BASTIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Speedometers, of which the following is a specification.

' Heretofore it has been common to operate a speedometer through the medium of a flexible shaft geared in a suitable manner to one of the axles of a vehicle, such as an auto mobile. It has also been common to combine an odometer with the speedometer, both being driven by the same flexible shaft. To

operate the speedometer when the vehicle is traveling at a speed of a mile a minute'the flexible shaft will revolveat approximately 2500 revolutions per minute. It is customary to operate the odometer mechanism at the rate of one tenth of a revolution for every mile of travel. Hence the flexible shaft is driven at a high rate of speed solely for the purpose of operatin -the speedometer because the odometer could be operated by the flexible shaft revolving at a very low rate of speed, such as twenty five revolutions per minute.

Considerable trouble has been occasioned in the use of speedometers by reason of the high rate oi speed at which the flexible shaft must travel to operate them, and to the tact that this shaft easily gets out of order and the speedometer registers inaccurately.

The object of my invention is to provide.

for operating the speedometer on a wheeled vehicle in a novel and simple manner without the use of a flexible shaft. And a further object of the invention is to operate the speedometer electrically by a generator which is connected with a rotating part of the engine of the vehicle.

In the accompanyin drawings Figure 1 illustrates the engine 0 an automobile with a portion of the automobile indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 shows this-speedometer and an odometer on the dash board of the automobile.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates an engine and 3 a shaft driven therefrom by intermediate gearing.

My invention may be embodied with any engine to which it may be connected and in the drawings I have shown generally and without goin into details a common form of engine which is arranged in any suitable .tion' by manner in an automobile 4 indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1.

A small electric generator 5 is suitably mounted adjacent to the engine and the armature shaft 6 of this generator carries agear 7 which is driven by a gear 8 on the shaft 3. The speedometer, designated genen ally 9, is mounted on the dash board 10 of the automobile and it may be constructed in any suitable manner with a pointer 11 and a scale 12 suitably divided and marked to indicate miles. The speedometer may be made in accordance with commercial voltometers and in Fig. 2 I have indicated a simple construction which embodies a magnet coil'13 and an armature I l. The armature is carried by the pointer 11 which is pivotally mounted at 15 in the casing 16 and'themagnet coil is likewise mounted in any approved manner in said casing. The generator is connected with the magnet coil 13 by wires 17 and 18. A switch. 19 of comnoon construction is interposed in this electric circuit and mounted on the dash board in convenient position for operation.

Anodometer, designated generally 20, and of any suitable construction, may be our bodied in the casing 16 with the speedometer and thisodometer is constructed for opera a flexible shaft 21 driven from one of the wheels of the vehicle.

By my invention the speedometer indi quently,the speed of travel of the vehicle and this is accomplished, as will be readily understood, by operating the generator from the-engine shaft to generate a current which operates the pointer. As the speed of revolution of the engine shaft increases a current of greater intensity will be generated and the pointer will be caused to move by the magnet coil to indicate a corresponding s eed of travel of the vehicle. It will here explained that. the pointer is prevented from being immediately drawn over against the magnet when the latter is energized, by means of a suitable sprim 22 connected to the. casing 16 and to the pointer and operatin in opposition to the pull of the magnet, 13 e tension of the spring being .the pull of the magnet, which in turn is governed by the current furnished by the generator.

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